#Destructoid Originals

Thanksgiving is happening in parts of the world today, and for some, it's quite a struggle. The holiday has the tendency to bring people together who often avoid each other for the bulk of the year, with the hope of finding a sense of close...

[From our Destructoid Golden Archives, here's a Chad Concelmo classic from this day in Dtoid, 2009]
The other day I was driving down the street, when a large feather from a rusty white truck transporting turkeys blew into my Jeep window. Af...

For years, skateboarding thrived in the shadows. It was a sport defined by alleyways and scraped knees pioneered by punks and self-described weirdos. Before the X-Games and multimillion-dollar sponsorship deals, skateboarding was a secret r...

Back in March, for Women’s History Month, I wrote about the world’s greatest thief, Carmen Sandiego, and declared her the greatest woman ever in gaming. She’s a badass and she taught me so much about all the different coun...

Right – let me start this article by exposing my biases. Namely, one of the first games I played to the point of obsession was The Sims, and as everyone knows, The Sims is a highly modular game. Since the very beginning, the Sims seri...

For most of the games announced yesterday, the 2017 Game Awards have been a long time coming. From the moment The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild hit the Switch, we knew it was a contender. Same goes for Super Mario Odyssey and the...

Final Fantasy VII is twenty years old, and I still love it dearly. I remember poring over the game's early hours in my parent's basement, entranced by Midgar's neon lights and cyberpunk stylings. One of the most embarrassing moments in...

We're just a few short days away from the launch of Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, the last two mainline Pokémon games to appear on a dedicated handheld console. Yes this Friday millions of people around the world...

Last week, I went to the PLAY creative gaming festival, which takes place every year in Hamburg, Germany. PLAY17 was both entertaining and educational, with something for people of all ages, including workshops, talks and even a game-t...

Could it be that the Japanese version of the Super Mario Odyssey theme, "Jump Up Super Star" is the inferior version? Music nerds, lend me your bruised wood-worn appendages.
Not to karaoke-shame anyone, but IMHO the Br...

As a Vanilla World of Warcraft player who has been present during every expansion, I've seen the game grow and regress in myriad ways.
World PVP eventually became a shell of its former self, "looking for group" functionality (LFG) was ...

Overwatch's 26th hero Moira was revealed at Blizzcon last week, and she's been available on the PC's Public Test Realm (PTR) since Monday. I've been trying the vampiric biomancer out since then, and I'll expand on her abilities below.

There are some seriously weird games out there – this is what you quickly learn when you start collecting them, even with a focus on specific consoles. There's always at least one or two developers, big or small, that like to take ser...

Growing up, watching X-Men was a must for me. As the little porker I was, shunning daylight and exercise for the warm glow of my television set, I never missed an episode. I watched every damn adventure. All 76 of them, even the shitty...

The infamous cover for the North American release of Phalanx on the Super Nintendo is constantly featured on lists of the “worst” video game covers of all time. Obviously, these people are, objectively, extremely wrong. This is ...

Slack-jawed with eyes of wonder, the great-grandchildren of World War II veteran Clyde Hussley listened closely as he recalled his time with 29th Infantry Division and the day his life was saved thanks to a loot box. Hussley, who was j...

Like roughly 90% of the rest of the world, I spent the days leading up to Halloween watching the second season of Stranger Things, which takes place in 1984. Nintendo didn't hit North America until 1985, so kids like the Stranger Thing...

At the beginning of each year, for the last two years or so, I've searched the web and Wikipedia looking for upcoming game anniversaries the Destructoid staff could write articles about and maybe inspire some great discussion. This year's l...

[Update: And the winners are WholeWheatBagels, Exy, D-Volt and Keiichi Morisato. Check your Dtoid PMs for your Steam codes, and after you've played it, let us know about it in the comments and/or the Cblogs. We'd...

In a Dead Space developer diary, executive producer Glen Schofield used a good example to illustrate how audio is integral to fear: "We've turned off a scary movie -- the picture -- and just run the audio and it's very scary, but if yo...

The Nintendo 3DS is gradually being put out to pasture, now that it's bulkier, flashier half-brother is taking over. We're bidding adieu to a console that had a pretty impressive back catalogue, and dominated the handheld market for a good ...

Super Mario Odyssey has proved to be the game we all thought it was going to be. With rave reviews across the board, it’s an instant classic and yet another win – in a year full of wins – for the Nintendo Switch. When it w...

Game Center CX, also known as Retro Game Challenge, is arguably the world's first Let's Play series. It's been a hit on Japanese TV ever since its debut in 2003, spawning multiple game spin-offs and other side projects. Satoru Iwata, the l...

The re-release of Apollo Justice for the Nintendo 3DS gives me a perfect opportunity to bring up some of the important lessons the series has taught us about the law.
In the strange world of Japanifornia, the courts are a place not only of ...

X-Men has been one of Marvel's biggest properties for a long time, and not just in comic books. Before the days of the MCU, Marvel actually seemed to enjoy putting X-Men on a pedestal. The mutant team had a character almost everyone could r...

Just sampled about an hour of music that is popular here these Unsurprisingly all of it is What bothers me though is that it sounds barely different than the shit of my teenage Fucking kids these days dont even try to keep it

Mom was putting a ton of fragile decorations on the christmas Tried to warn her that we have a cat now and that it is a BAD idea, she told me she always had cats and they never touched her xmas Now Im just waiting for the

Decided to try Its Feels like DayZ when I played the mod years I dont enjoy the combat or low health, if someone sees you first you probably have no chance to fight If you do play on PC, though, go Look at that wide FOV